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cribrare [CL; cf. AN cribrer, OF cribler] 1 to sift; b (alch); c (prov.). d (p. ppl. w. panis) cribble bread. e (as sb. f. or m.) sieveful (dry measure); cf. cribrum 2. grandinibus / quae catervatim caelitus / crebrantur nigris nubibus Carm. Aldh. 1. 54; Hist. Abb. Jarrow 4 (v. clibanus 1a); crebrat, siftið GlC C 872; pulverem aridum ‥ subtiliter ~atum Adel. QN 1; omnia desiccata et pulverizata †scribra Gilb. IV 180. 2; 1324 in j crebro pro calce crebrando, iij d. KR Ac 469/8 m. 4; 1409 petras frangenti et ~anti Ac. Forge Durh. 519.  b Dastin Ros. 9 (v. cribratio).  c impensas vento cribrat qui servit iniquo D. Bec. 1224.  d 13‥ habebit ad gentaculum panem de frumento ~atum (Lib. Alb. Wells) Arch. Soc. Som XX sup. 68.  e c1268 [famuli magistrorum cocorum] accipient ‥ vij panes ‥ et ~atam unam furfuris Cart. Rams. III 237; 1299 debet xij criblatos frumenti de chirchseto RB Worc. 151; pro ij †cribrac’ [l. cribratis] avene tunc ij d. ad Paschale Surv. Denb. 229 (cf. ib. 222: pro †cribac’). 2 (fig.): a to investigate. b to rack, torment; c (w. ref. to Luke xxii 31). a 747 deducantur sacrilegi illi ‥ exepiscopi ut eorum ‥ subtili indagatione ~etur causa (Lit. Papae) Ep. Bonif. 77; to examyn’, examinare, cribare, ventulare CathA.  b corpus totum cribrat afflictio J. Howd. Ph. 547.  c [diabolus] ad ~andos apostolos expetiit potestatem P. Blois Serm. 65. 775B; 1195 expetiit nos Sathanas ut in hac tribulatione cribaret sicut triticum (Lit.Papae) Diceto YH 133; monasterium ‥ Glastonie, quod ‥ a Sathane satellitibus lamentabiliter est ~atum, dum grano ‥ puro ejecto palea ‥ in horreum eligitur ‥ servanda Elmh. Cant. 265.

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